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The boys wouldn't come to save him. Only Hazel would. And maybe that's why the boys would win.

It was a beautiful lie that they had all been telling themselves - that you could have magic without monsters.

She didn't know the answer. But there had to be a way. There was always a way.

No one took her seriously because she was small and feathered, a strange little dino-bird, but she had a sickle claw and she was not afraid to use it.

The woods do not mean you well.

Ladders were not inherently dangerous, he told himself, people climbed them every day, and most of them lived.

The house felt strange. Altered. Like someone had come in during the day and shrunk all the furniture just a tiny bit.

Her father said she was a princess. He did not see that she was a brave knight.

The apprentice's name was Wolf, because sometimes the universe is an unsubtle place.

Hazel shrugged. She heard Bobby's voice in her head and wondered why it was she who was not allowed to hurt anyone.

I think if you'll look around, my boy,' he said gently, 'you'll find that no one is quite right. But we all do the best we can.

She just eyed them coolly, as if they were nothing to her, as if their nothingness surprised and slightly repelled her.

Someone who thinks of possessing a fountain made of a winged baby with water shooting out of its mouth must not have too many troubles.

She understood. They were plastic flowers of words - but they looked nice on the surface.

No one else needed to do this. No one else needed lessons on how to be a person.

He remembered that part like you'd remember a story someone told to you once, like you might nod in sympathy but it wasn't like it happened to you.

It snowed right before Jack stopped talking to Hazel, fluffy white flakes big enough to show their crystal architecture, like perfect geometric poems.

He lifted his hand to knock, but then he stopped. He could go neither forward nor back, so he simply stayed that way - hand frozen in the air.

The water was holding [him] close and telling him beautiful lies, and since it was the end, he chose to believe them.

Now she would be part girl, part hardening gray sludge. And no one would notice the difference.

It's all going to be okay. She would like to hear that now, even if it was a lie. Because some lies are beautiful. Stories do not tell you that.

This is what it is to live in the world. You have to give yourself over to the cold, at least a little bit.

This is what happens on journeys - the things you find are not necessarily the things you had gone looking for.

She wore weird baggy clothes and seemed like the sort of person who might tesser in some dark and stormy night.

His words sounded foolish to his own ears. He was not impressive. He was small like the world.

There is something in the magic we have that is greater than the magic we can do.

You see," the lord explained, "everyone else has them. You wouldn't want your child to be the only one who had flaws. What would it be like for them?

School was very easy, it turned out, if you just disconnected your heart.

He's gone now. He did something terrible, but ... he did good things, too. And he kept us well. And it's all right if you are sad.

We're starting with the villain," Martin interjected. "Because they are the most fun.

It would not hurt, after all, to walk into the woods.

She had believed that because someone needed saving they were savable.

In woods where the woodsmen told lies, maybe it was the wolves who told the truth.

Nature can destroy us in a blink. We live on only at its pleasure.

Sometimes superheroes are born, sometimes they are made. Sometimes they make themselves. Sometimes all it takes is will.

You can't just kill a swan and wrap yourself in its skin, you know. It takes something from you. In her case it took the thing that she wanted most.

The witch raised one careful eyebrow. "I? I want nothing," she told Hazel. "Don't you see? I want nothing.

They said words they did not mean, and their conversations seemed to follow all kinds of rules - rules that no one has ever explained to Oscar.

What are you supposed to do when something like that happens? Do you hold on or let go?

Kids can handle a lot more than you think they can. It's when they get to be grown up that you have to start worrying.